Team on The Science Silk Road Project

Anatole Daolio

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Anatole is an incoming doctoral researcher in Political Science at Université Laval (Québec), affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research on Global Governance (CIRGoM). His doctoral research, conducted as part of the Science Silk Road programme at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, examines China’s Digital Belt and Road Programme as a knowledge infrastructure, asking how Earth observation networks shape the global politics of scientific knowledge.

Anna L. Ahlers

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Anna L. Ahlers is Research Group Leader of the Lise Meitner Research Group “China in the Global System of Science” at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, which she founded in 2020. She also holds a part-time position as Professor II in the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oslo. Trained as a sinologist and political scientist, her research examines how China’s scientific development both shapes and is shaped by domestic and international politics. Her work focuses in particular on China’s political system, especially local governance and policy implementation, the political sociology of China’s science system, and the transformation of global science in the twenty-first century. She also works on comparative questions of contemporary authoritarianism.

Han Cheng

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Han Cheng is Senior Research Scholar in the Lise Meitner Research Group “China in the Global System of Science” at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and Adjunct Professor at Université Laval’s Graduate School of International Studies. He is a human geographer with particular interests in political and development geographies, the geopolitics of territory and infrastructure, geographies of knowledge, and the histories of geographical thought. He has published widely in leading journals, including Progress in Human Geography, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Political Geography, and Review of International Political Economy.

Hang Zhou

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Hang Zhou is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Université Laval (Québec, Canada), an affiliated faculty member of its Graduate School of International Studies, and Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of African Studies. His research focuses on South–South relations, especially Africa–China relations, as well as the politics of development, infrastructure, maritime anthropology, bureaucracy, and everyday state practices. Previously, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the TransOceanic Fishers project at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway. His work has appeared in journals including African Affairs, International Journal of Heritage Studies, Marine Policy, and African Study Monographs.

Lucie Sénéchal-Perrouault

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Dr Lucie Sénéchal-Perrouault is a Shuimu Postdoctoral Scholar at Tsinghua University. Her research examines contemporary and historical Chinese space activities through a Science and Technology Studies (STS) lens, with a particular focus on governance and political economy in the commercial space sector. She holds a CNRS-funded PhD in History of Science from École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) and was trained at Sciences Po.

Shizuku Sunagawa

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Shizuku Sunagawa will be entering the project as a PhD candidate in Political Sciences at Université Laval. Prior to joining the project, she worked at the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Technical University of Munich (TUM). Her research interests include knowledge production processes in academia, with a focus on environment-related fields. She also holds a strong interest in mixed-methods study which brings together qualitative approaches with quantitative ones.

Trym Eiterjord

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Trym Eiterjord is a PhD student in Geography at the University of British Columbia and a Visiting Predoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. His research examines the relationship between twenty-first-century militarism and the earth sciences, and how intensifying great-power rivalry between the United States and China is reshaping research collaboration in Earth system science. His doctoral project explores the discursive construction of ‘dual-use research,’ focusing on China’s earth-scientific foray into the polar regions.

Zhaozhe Liang

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Zhaozhe Liang is Graduate Assistant in the Lise Meitner Research Group “China in the Global System of Science” at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and an M.A. student in Sociology – European Societies at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research interests include discourse, governance, social policy, and transnational entrepreneurship. Her co-authored work has appeared in Social Policy Review, Canadian Review of Sociology, and Social Sciences Perspectives.